It being Halloween again, I will be carving a very large pumpkin but battening down the hatches in preparation for the annual avalanche of trick or treaters (an annoying custom imported from the USA).

The only person I will be opening my door to this evening will be the Tesco delivery man, who is scheduled to deliver 96 cans of Red Stripe! I would note that, thusfar, Red Stripe cans do not besport their calorie content.

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

As loyal readers know, Nanny and her chums from our "beloved" local councils are addicted to issuing fines and charges over and above council taxes. The monies raised from these fines are used for paying Nanny's bills and for her pet projects, that invariably are hair brained or useless.

Step forward Brighton and Hove Green Council, which raked in £11.5M from car permit and penalty charges in 2013/14. According to The Argus the equivalent figure in 2012/13 was £10.9M.

More than £3.6M of last year’s parking kitty was raised through
the issue of 117,772 penalty charge notices (PCNs). This is an increase from 114,332 in 2012/13.

The council claims that the money raised is pumped back into transport projects.

Are these projects for motorists?

No!

The schemes include concessionary bus fares for
the elderly, installing new cycle lanes and planting lots of new trees around roads leading into Brighton in a bid to
welcome motorists. Seemingly the trees were meant to make the
motorist feel better!

Friday, October 24, 2014

Nanny has issued an urgent warning to parents in the Wigan area to keep their kids away from a gentleman posing as "Uncle Joe", seemingly his mint balls are radioactive and may cause children to glow in the dark!

"Put bluntly, as the nation's
waistline keeps piling on the pounds, we're piling on billions of pounds
in future taxes just to pay for preventable illnesses."

Simon Stevens (NHS England CEO) said that the NHS has led to a "blind
spot" about the healthcare of employees (because the state and the private sector do not make comfortable bed fellows), and workplace schemes to
encourage weight loss have been largely ignored despite success abroad.

"The principal point is that employers in many countries have
developed voluntary schemes for their employees whereby for example you
actually get cash back based on participation in Weight Watchers or
other type schemes."

Suffice to say Nanny doesn't intend to fund any private sector weight loss schemes, rather she (via the NHS) intends to "challenge" firms to bring in such schemes.

As to whether this gets anywhere, who knows?

I am of the view that we are bombarded day and night with adverts for slimming products and lectures from Nanny about our weight. Unless people have been living in a cave they must surely by now be aware of how to eat and exercise sensibly; people are not gaining weight because they don't know how to eat and exercise sensibly, therefore I doubt that more lectures and advice will have much effect.

Monday, October 20, 2014

Sadly the media scaremongering over ebola, and Nanny's kneejerk reactions to media pressure, have caused some people to become more than a little paranoid.

Jon O'Brien, of Turvey Bedfordshire, has told Sharnbrook Upper School that he wants his daughter
to wear a face mask to school during the ebola crisis.

He is quoted by BedfordshireOnSunday:

"I don’t believe the crap the government are telling us in
relation to Ebola so I emailed the school and said I would like my child
to wear a mask.I'm not going to wait for my child to catch Ebola I'm going to send my child to school with a mask and bloody goggles.
I should be able to protect her and I will do what's best for her....I’m not part of the 95 per cent of sheep that run this country and do everything they are told."

Whilst I respect his desire to protect his daughter, and the fact that he doesn't believe what politicians say, if ebola were running rampant in Bedfordshire wearing a mask would not be adequate protection.

Friday, October 17, 2014

I am pleased to see that, despite commissioning the report that recommended banning fag smoking in parks, Boris Johnson has (following widespread criticism and ridicule of the recommendation) decided that the recommendation is bollocks.

Thursday, October 16, 2014

As loyal readers know I have long expounded the meritorious benefits of eating fat. The body is like a car engine, it needs to be lubricated otherwise it seizes up. Hence fat in the blood stream aids the natural flow of blood around the arteries and veins etc.

Step forward Michael Mosley on "Trust Me I'm a Doctor" who says that contrary to conventional advice, eating more of some fats may be good for our health.

Earlier this year a systematic review, funded by the British Heart Foundation, "Association of dietary, circulating and supplement fatty acids with coronary risk" examined the links between eating saturated fat and heart
disease. Despite looking at the results of nearly 80 studies involving
more than a half million people they were unable to find convincing
evidence that eating saturated fats leads to greater risk of heart
disease.

In fact, when they looked at blood results, they found that
higher levels of some saturated fats, in particular a type of saturated
fat you get in milk and dairy products called margaric acid, were
associated with a lower risk of heart disease.

A recent study, published in the Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, "High dairy fat intake related to less central obesity" followed 1,589 Swedish men for 12
years. They found that those following a low-fat diet (no butter,
low-fat milk and no cream) were more likely to develop fat around the
gut (central obesity) than those eating butter, high-fat milk and
whipping cream.

One reason for this is that fat is extremely satiating,
so when people cut it out of their diet they consciously or
unconsciously replace the calories with something else, often refined
carbohydrates like white bread or pasta.

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

As loyal readers are well aware, Nanny has often chided (and indeed fined) those public spirited citizens who have ventured forth into their local communities and cut the verges, trimmed public hedges, planted flowers in roundabouts and attempted to fill in pot holes.

Nanny normally hates it when people use their initiative, as it makes her look surplus to requirements.

However, now that Nanny is finding it hard to make ends meet (and justify taxing us even more), her chums from Devon County Council have actually asked residents to fill in potholes themselves in order
to save money on road repairs.

Devon County Council has (according to the Telegraph) an estimated backlog of 11,500 sections of
road in need of repair, and has said up to a fifth of its neighbourhood highway
workforce could be cut and replaced by volunteer “road wardens”.

Volunteer road wardens...how very Nannyesque!

The volunteers would help fill in potholes, as well as cleaning signs and
trimming lawns and verges.

One might ask where our road taxes and council taxes are actually going, but I doubt that we would receive an honest answer.

Monday, October 13, 2014

I see that Welsh Nanny has issued an edict that warns of the dangers of mollycoddling kids who have glandular fever, tonsillitis etc.

Kids who have been struck down with tonsillitis and glandular fever should carry on
going to school. The booklet, given to families in South Wales, says pupils should take
“zero days off”; despite suffering a range of childhood illnesses such as
conjunctivitis, head lice, threadworm and hand, foot and mouth disease.

Foot and mouth?

I thought cows got that?

Nanny goes on to recommend that kids should spend just four days away from school
for measles, and take no more than five days for chicken pox, whooping cough
and mumps.

The Telegraph notes that the guide was produced by a consortium of five local councils,
including Cardiff.

As to whether this is workable or not remains to be seen, given that "one size" does not fit all and kids take different times to recover. I would also note that forcing them to come to school, whilst still contagious, simply spreads the bugs to others.

Friday, October 10, 2014

Most certainly the man who followed up a sneezing fit on a plane by saying loudly he had Ebola, is the knobhead of the millennium.

The Mail reports that following this outburst a Hazmat team rushed on to a plane from Philadelphia in the Dominican Republic.

The American passenger, who did not have Ebola, was detained by four officers and taken to the airport's medical centre in Punta Cana where, after numerous tests, I assume he was given a sound kicking for being a knobhead.

The remaining 255 people were forced to stay on board for two hours until he was cleared.

Thursday, October 09, 2014

The sad thing about living in a Nanny state is that it seems to leach some people's senses of humour out of them, especially when it comes to Nanny's child centric fetish.

Step forward the good people of the Black Lion pub in Leighton Buzzard, who put up an amusing chalkboard sign that said staff would nail children who are running around to the
table.

Clearly anyone with half a brain can see that this was written tongue in cheek.

Sadly some people haven't got half a brain. Debbie Bird, editor of Babyworld.co.uk, told The Mirror it
is important young children are ‘exposed to social events’ such as pubs
and restaurants, and that she considers the sign to be aggressive.

One
anonymous Facebook user suggesting the owners of the pub should be ‘arrested for
promoting child abuse’.

How absolutely pathetic!

Children who are being a pain in the arse should not be in pubs, period!

Tuesday, October 07, 2014

I have heard of some truly daft ideas in my life, but this one takes the biscuit for utter fuckwittery.

Harbour Primary School in Newhaven has decided, or rather East Sussex County Council has decided, to introduce unisex toilets.

For why?

In order to prevent transphobia!

Ignoring the fact that transphobia in primary school kids is hardly the most pressing item (given how shitty the world is becoming), do the people in East Sussex County Council really think that primary school girls want to share their ablutions with primary school boys?

Monday, October 06, 2014

I see that our old friends from NICE have decreed that doctors should pro-actively ask more intrusive questions about our drinking habits and, based on those answers, prescribe a magic pill that will reduce our craving to drink.

Now here's the thing, as we all know, the NHS is struggling with finite resources to meet an infinite demand for it services. Therefore any additional cost burden will inevitably take resources away from other areas.

How much does one of these pills cost?

£3 a pop!

Who should be prescribed them?

People who drink 2 or more glasses of wine a day (or the equivalent).

Yes, you did read that correctly, 2 or more glasses of wine a day!

For why?

NICE are of the view that if you drink 2 glasses of wine a day then you are an alcoholic!

FFS!

These cretins need to get a life, and stop interfering in the lives of others.

Those who are alcohol dependent, and who come forward for help, are the ones that the scarce resources of the NHS should be focussed on; not the members of the public who drink a couple of glasses of wine, who are not dependent.

Friday, October 03, 2014

Kudos to a branch of KFC in Leicester that displayed utter fuckwittery over the issuance, or rather non issuance, of the obligatory KFC finger and face wipes.

The branch is trialing offering halal chicken alongside non halal chicken and, for reasons that escape all and sundry, decided that because the face wipes contain alcohol they should not be given out lest they offend Muslims.

Now here's the thing, Muslims are allowed to use alcohol for cleanliness and for medicine etc. The only issue being if they were to drink it.

Unless I am very much mistake people tend not to drink face wipes!

Suffice to say this sort of nonsense, aside from making KFC look like knobheads, stokes up tensions between Muslim and non Muslims by creating an issue where there isn't one.

Thursday, October 02, 2014

In an absurd piece of Nannyism Amazon Prime Inatsnat Video has declared that Tom and Gerry cartoons are racist and, as such, now issues a warning.

Tom and Gerry, made many moons ago, sometimes featured a coloured maid and in later years an Irish maid. Despite the fact that for some households of the era this was the norm, Amazon have decreed it to be racist.

It is ironic, given that current TV sitcoms etc regularly feature South American maids 9whrein the "joke" is often their inability to communicate with their employers).

Will Amazon be issuing a racist warning about these programmes too?

Come to think of it, will Amazon be issuing a warning about all films etc featuring non white members of staff; eg Gone With The Wind, Roots, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air etc?

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